Tabiji.ai Travel Safety Series · Master Volume

Don't be their next target.

30 documented scams across 24 countries — drawn from press records, embassy advisories, Reddit threads, and direct debriefs from travelers who lived through them. The seven universal patterns that all of them share. The exit phrases in eleven languages. The recovery playbook for the first hour, day, and week.

📖 30 chapters 📱 Kindle & Paperback 🌍 24 countries 🗣 11 languages
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The Big Book of Travel Scams — front cover

Inside this book

A preview of three chapters from the thirty — each one a scam you'll meet again and again across the world.

30 scams 24 countries 7 universal patterns Exit phrases in 11 languages
Excerpt · Paris, France

The Gold Ring Trick

A woman ten paces ahead of you bends down theatrically and lifts something gleaming from the cobbles. She turns, holding it up, and steps directly into your path: "Excusez-moi, is this yours?" The ring is brass plated to look like 18-carat gold. A two-person team can run the play forty times a day…

Pattern: Manufactured Reciprocity / Made-Up Closure.
Full mechanic, 5 red flags, exit phrases in 4 languages — in the book.
Excerpt · Rome, Italy

The Coperto Markup & Bill Padding

You sit down at a Trastevere trattoria. A bread basket arrives unsolicited. The waiter brings carafe water you didn't order. The tiramisu is "complimentary." When the bill arrives, every one of those is a line item — plus a coperto three times the going rate, plus a 15% service charge already added…

Red flag: The menu doesn't print the coperto, the service charge, or the bread fee.
Cross-references the Italy atlas. Italian phrases included.
Excerpt · Bangkok / Mumbai

The Drink-Spiking Bar Bill Trap

Harry is on his second night in Bangkok. A friendly stranger at the next table buys a round. The next morning he wakes with no memory, an empty wallet, and a 47,000-baht charge to a bar he doesn't recognize. The same script runs in Sukhumvit, in Bandra, in Madrid Centro, in Buenos Aires Palermo…

Pattern: Captive-Position Lever — same mechanic, four cities, three continents.
First-hour and 30-day recovery playbook in the book.

A look inside

Every scam in the book gets a comic illustration in its country's local visual tradition. A sneak peek of two:

The Gold Ring Trick — comic illustration in Hergé ligne-claire style
Paris · The Gold Ring Trick (France · Hergé ligne-claire)
The Bottakuri Bar Overcharge — comic illustration in Studio Ghibli style
Tokyo · The Bottakuri Bar Overcharge (Japan · Studio Ghibli)

30 scams across 24 countries

Every country with a Tabiji volume in the Travel Safety Series is documented — from the Paris Gold Ring to the Cairo airport "official taxi," the Mumbai dating-app pub-bill ambush to the Buenos Aires cueva counterfeit swap, the Times Square three-card monte to the Bangkok closed-attraction redirect.

🇦🇷 Argentina
🇦🇺 Australia
🇧🇷 Brazil
🇨🇦 Canada
🇨🇳 China
🇨🇴 Colombia
🇨🇷 Costa Rica
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇬🇷 Greece
🇮🇳 India
🇮🇩 Indonesia
🇮🇹 Italy
🇯🇵 Japan
🇲🇾 Malaysia
🇲🇽 Mexico
🇲🇦 Morocco
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇪🇸 Spain
🇹🇭 Thailand
🇹🇷 Türkiye
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🇻🇳 Vietnam

Why tabiji.ai writes these books

We've indexed nearly 2,000 traveler reports across 24 countries. The Travel Safety Series is that work, edited down into pocket-sized field guides. The Big Book is the master volume — the same scams, told once across every border they cross.

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Three-confirmation rule

Every scam in the book meets three independent confirmations: a traveler report, a press citation, and a police or tourism-authority record. A scam that runs only in Marrakech and only on Tuesdays does not make the book. A scam that runs in Marrakech, Cairo, Istanbul, Mumbai, and Bangkok with the same opening line does.

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Patterns, not folklore

Part I documents the seven universal patterns that underlie every scam in the rest of the book. Learn the mechanics and you do not need to memorize a thousand local variants — you'll spot the brand-new costume the first second it appears.

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Updated annually

Scams evolve. We re-research and update the book every year. Buy once, re-download future editions from your Amazon library at no extra cost.

Part of the Travel Safety Series

The Big Book is the master volume. Each of the 24 country atlases takes a single destination deeper — every scam in that country, with the local detail you need the week before your flight.

Frequently asked

Quick answers about formats, pricing, and how the Big Book fits with the country atlases.

What formats will this book be available in?

Amazon Kindle eBook ($9.99) and paperback. The Kindle edition is readable on any phone, tablet, or computer with the free Kindle app, as well as on any Kindle device. Both formats are available on Amazon now.

How long is the book?

30 chapters covering one scam each, plus the seven universal patterns up front, the recovery playbook, and nine appendices (emergency contacts by country, by-traveler-type index, severity tier, glossary, and methodology). Designed as a field guide that fits in a carry-on.

How is this different from the country atlases?

The 24 country atlases run one country deep — every scam in that country with full local detail. The Big Book runs the other direction: one scam, all 24 countries. Read this first; read your destination volume second.

Where do the scams come from?

Press records, police arrest records, Reddit threads on r/travel and country-specific subreddits, embassy advisories, and direct debriefs from travelers who lived through them. Every scam meets the three-confirmation rule.

When does it launch?

Available now on Amazon — both Kindle and paperback. Tap the buy button above to grab it.

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